Angela Dorn-Rancke

Angela Dorn-Rancke (born 2 June 1982) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as the State Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts of Hesse in the cabinet of Minister-President Volker Bouffier from 2019 to 2024.

Political career
In the 2009 elections, Dorn-Rancke was elected into the State Parliament of Hesse, at the time as the youngest member of legislative.

From 2017 to 2019, Dorn-Rancke served as co-chair of her party of the Green Party in Hesse, alongside Kai Klose.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Dorn-Rancke was part of her party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research, co-chaired by Thomas Losse-Müller, Katharina Fegebank and Lydia Hüskens.

Other activities

 * Cultural Foundation of the German States (KdL), Member of the Council (2019–2024)
 * Fritz Bauer Institute, Member of the Board
 * Hessische Kulturstiftung, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees (2019–2024)
 * Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (HSFK), chair of the Board of Trustees (2019–2024)
 * University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees (2019–2024)
 * Vietnamese-German University (VGU), Member of the University Council (2019–2024)
 * Von-Behring Röntgen Foundation, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees (2019–2024)
 * German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND)
 * Medico International, Member
 * Hessischer Rundfunk, Member of the Broadcasting Council (–2019)